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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Independent space from ARIN
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 02:21:01AM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > * Why do we have to pay very large sums of money ($2500+ per year at a > minimum) for this wonderful IP policing service. Where in the heck does > all that money go? >From http://www.arin.net/library/corp_docs/budget.html : Out of the $7,861,700.00 they raked in last year: SALARIES $2,326,653.85 FRINGE BENEFITS $1,045,063.15 HIRING COSTS $75,000.00 TRAVEL AND CONFERENCE $631,732.40 COMMUNICATIONS $236,699.62 COMPUTER $118,941.75 DEPRECIATION $445,750.00 RENT & OCCUPANCY $461,287.00 GENERAL OFFICE $192,400.00 LEGAL FEES $100,000.00 Legal Defense Fund $200,000.00 ICANN SUPPORT $188,480.00 Other Internet Support - Merit & ISOC $100,000.00 LACNIC SUPPORT $66,000.00 CONSULTING $184,000.00 Total $6,372,007.76 In other words, they're milking the cash cow. > * Why are we expected to continue the status quo of paying thousands of > dollars for addresses in IPv6? Without the threat of an artifical > shortage to "manage", what possible reason is there to justify ARIN's > existance or fees? Why do we all get the feeling IPv6 isn't an end to > the expenses, but rather a vast new market of registration and renewal > fees? Because the owners of the cash cow don't want it to go away. > -- > Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras > GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC) -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203
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